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No Hands on the Clock
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A fistful of cigarette butts, a ransom note, and a dead redhead catapult Humphrey Campbell into a fast murder chase.
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Geoffrey Homes was the pen name for Daniel Mainwaring who was an all purpose writer in Hollywood during the height of the studio system. Using the Homes name he published hard boiled detective fiction--the most famous of which is "Built my Gallows High" (1946) which was the basis for the classic film noir "Out of the Past" (1947). In "No Hands on the Clock" (1939) Homes demonstrates all his skills at character, plot and particularly setting to weave a real corker of a story. I am particularly impressed with his ability to involk the unique and often surreal reality that was Reno at the height of the Divorce Era. Homes skillfully blends fact and fiction to paint an wonderful picture of the characters and environment of this odd corner of Nevada just before World war II. He really knows his stuff, using elements such as the piano player who really did live in a six-sided Chinese pagoda house with a revolving bed! If you are a fan of Hammett or Chandler, give Homes a try. You will not be dissapointed!
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ISBN:
9781434451330
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Publication date:
03/01/2009
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200
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.46IN
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Geoffrey Homes
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Mystery-A to Z
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